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Monday, March 28, 2011

What's in "The Barrel?"

Remember I told you how I put moth balls in my perennial gardens to deter rodents and snakes and that I put some under the rain barrel located on the corner of the house? Well, each morning, when I'm outside and pass by the barrel, a few moth balls are pushed out towards the lawn. Today I think I saw the little critter that has now become my nemesis.

Tail bristled as he ran along the top railing of the fence, he was in the clear before Moon, who was in hot pursuit, could even get a good whiff of him. I say HIM because men always give me a hard time! But, don't you worry, I'll get that little varmint! Personally, I think he came from The City Beneath the Garden which is where, I'm sure, he has his recliner and remote!!

A few hours later, after I was finished working outside, I walked in the bedroom to add something to the suitcase. As I peeked out the bedroom window, there he was! Pulling the camera out of my backpack bound for the Caribbean, I got a few shots as I zoomed in on that little devil.

Tell me something. Is it my imagination or is this little "guy" a little on the hefty side? Of course, he could just be big boned, but do you think HE could be a SHE? If that's the case, just think...when I return, I'll have a nursery next to the City Under the Garden!!!! LOL!!)

OH goody!!! nursery shots! can't wait, SHE is a varmint, but a darn cute onewe had big bad thunderboomer storm for about 5 hours during the night and i just came in from saving two toads out of our pool, then as i saved one from Jake the dragon dog, he grabbed the other and it peed in his mouth and we had Cujo foaming, no photos and phooey

How could that cute little chip monk be your nemesis. I was watching a nature special just last week that said normally the sent of mothballs doesn't bother them, but when heavily pregnant the will move them for the area. the wanna be country girl - Caroline

What is it? I hope the mothballs won't make him die a slow and miserable death! I know some animals are pests, but I hate for anything to slowly suffer and die in agony...is it a chipmunk? It has stripes...Maybe his belly is swollen from the mothballs churning inside...poor thing!

BE GRATEFUL...

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.~ Melody Beattie

Gratitude is not only the greatest of all virtues, it is the parent of all others.